[Samba] getent not working correctly

[Hall, Ken (ECSS)]

Did you reboot after starting winbindd?

Either do that, or try looking for the nameserver cache daemons (nscd), and kill them all.  (Don't worry, they'll restart.)

I had the same problem with nss_ldap, and it drove me NUTS till I found out about the cache mechanism.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel Kelly [mailto:nkelly at citrusnetworks.net]
> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 12:46 PM
> To: 'Sean Patrick Ingles'; samba at samba.org
> Subject: RE: [Samba] getent not working correctly
> 
> 
> You need getent to work.  This is really how Unix actually does the
> authenticating - winbind is just the conduit to the M$ database.  
> 
> Have you edited your /etc/nsswitch.conf correctly?  You need:
> 
> passwd:     files winbind nisplus
> shadow:     files winbind nisplus
> group:      files winbind nisplus
> 
> This will make Unix call winbind when looking for 
> users/groups (this the
> mechanism that getent passwd/group runs).
> 
> HTH,
> Noel
>        
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Patrick Ingles [mailto:ingless at visionsys.com]
> Sent: 01 November 2002 15:41
> To: samba at samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] getent not working correctly
> 
> 
> Hello again!
> 
> Ok, I've gotten wbinfo -u and wbinfo -g working great
> 
> Now I try to run getent passwd and getent group I get my 
> local users/groups
> but not the ones on the Windows 2k Server Domain Controller 
> and it just
> hangs after listing the local ones.
> 
> I also tried authenticating a user and it worked I'm assuming
> 
> wbinfo -a DOMAIN+ingless at DOMAIN%"password" (The usernames here have
> user at domain due to some M$ Active-Directory thing...) 
> plaintext password
> authentication succeeded challenge/response password 
> authentication failed
> Could not authenticate user DOMAIN+ingless at DOMAIN%"password" with
> challenge/response
> 
> Do I need getent working, or is it safe to assume everything 
> is functioning
> normally now?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -SP
> 
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